Acceptance of applications for inclusion in lists of patients
- Succeeding contractor must notify Health Board of pre-committed patient acceptances
Scottish Statutory Instrument
2004
United Kingdom
The General Medical Services and Section 17C Agreements (Transitional and other Ancillary Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2004
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13 compliance obligations
Who this Act binds
Plus 1 non-business duty on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.
What this Act requires
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Removals from the list of patients who are violent
- Complete outstanding steps for removing a violent patient from a GP list
Provision of immediately necessary treatment
- Continue providing immediately necessary treatment to former patients
Patient records
- Send patient records to Health Board under transitional arrangements
Complaints relating to general medical services made after 31st March 2004
- Apply the current complaints procedure to old complaints from the predecessor doctor's patients
Reports to a medical officer
- Respond to outstanding DWP medical officer requests as successor contractor
Annual reports
- Provide annual report to Health Board by 30 June 2004
Carry over of approvals, applications, notices
- Complete outstanding obligations from the previous default contract
Provision of immediately necessary treatment
- Continue providing immediately necessary treatment after default contract ends
Complaints
- Investigate complaints transferred from default contractor
Annual returns and reviews
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Health Board must not duplicate annual return requests for overlapping contracts Local authority
Sub-contracting of out of hours services under general medical services contracts
- Notify Health Board of sub-contracting of out of hours services
Out of hours services to patients not registered with general medical services contractors and default contractors
- Provide out-of-hours services to certain non-registered patients
Browse 89 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Citation, commencement and interpretation
Application and interpretation of this Part
Applications for inclusion in lists of patients
Removal from the list of patients at the request of the patient
Removal from the list of patients at the request of the relevant medical practitioner
Removals from the list of patients who have moved
Removals not reflected in the list of patients on 31st March 2004
Applications for acceptance as a temporary resident
Acceptance of temporary residents
Termination of responsibility for temporary residents
Newly registered patients
Appointments system
Qualifications of performers
Independent nurse prescribers and supplementary prescribers
Rights of entry
Refusal of approval of premises under paragraph 24 of Schedule 1 to the
Investigation of outstanding complaints
Arrangements with organisations providing deputy doctors
Practice leaflet
Medical examination of medical practitioners
Patients not seen within three years
Patients aged 75 years and over
Arrangements for
Refund of fees paid under paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations
Permission for use of facilities in private practice under section 64 of the
Recovery of overpayments
Application and interpretation of this Part
Newly registered patients
Temporary residents
Removals from the list of patients
Requirement to provide dispensing services
Sub-contracting
Refund of fees
Carry-over of disputes between default and general medical services contracts
Grounds for termination of the general medical services contract
Notifications to patients affected by differences between the terms of a default and a general medical services contract
Definitions
Existing pilot schemes
Variation of transitional agreements
Interpretation of transitional agreements
Modification of the
Modification of the 1995 Regulations for the purposes of transitional agreements
Modification of the
Assignment of patients: transitional agreements
Representations against a requirement to assign: transitional agreements
Variation and termination of transitional agreements
Health body status
Dispute resolution
Assignment of patients
Representations against assignments
Interpretation of this Part
Terms of general medical services contracts and default contracts
Applications for approval of out of hours arrangements under general medical services contracts and default contracts
Approvals of out of hours arrangements under general medical services contracts and default contracts
Refusal of approval of out of hours arrangements under general medical services contracts and default contracts
Review of approval of out of hours arrangements under general medical services contracts and default contracts
Review of approval of out of hours arrangements under general medical services contracts which follow default contracts
Withdrawal of approval of out of hours arrangements under general medical services contracts and default contracts
Appeal against immediate withdrawal of approval of out of hours arrangements under general medical services contracts and default contracts
References to the NHS dispute resolution procedure in general medical services contracts which follow default contracts
Carry over of disputes relating to out of hours arrangements between default contracts and general medical services contracts
Application of regulation 30 of the
Interpretation
Cases where no decision has been made before the relevant date as to whether disciplinary action should be taken (regulation 3 of the
Referrals to investigating discipline committees before the relevant date (regulation 4 of the Service Committees Regulations)
Determination of a Health Board or the Scottish Ministers made before the relevant date (regulation 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the Service Committees Regulations)
Determination of a Health Board made on or after the relevant date (regulation 7 of the Service Committees Regulations)
Appeals to the Scottish Ministers against determinations of Health Boards (regulations 8, 9 and 10 of the Service Committees Regulations)
Excessive prescribing (regulations 16 and 17 of the Service Committees Regulations)
Decision as to treatment for which fees may be charged by doctors (regulation 18 of the Service Committees Regulations)
Determination whether a substance is a drug and recovery of cost (regulation 19 of the Service Committees Regulations)
Interpretation
Allocation of medical practitioners on previous lists
Applications not decided on 1st April 2004
Transitional provision for performers of personal medical services
Matters relating to the NHS Tribunal and medical and supplementary lists
Matters relating to the NHS Tribunal and medical and supplementary lists
Matters relating to the NHS Tribunal and medical and supplementary lists
Matters relating to the NHS Tribunal and medical and supplementary lists
Transitional provisions in cases where preferential treatment on transferring to medical lists was given
Continuing validity of forms
Transitory interpretation of references in enactments to primary medical services
Transitory interpretation of references to general medical services contracts
Meaning of suitable experience
Savings of certain provisions of the Medical Act 1983
Saving of section 279 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992
Transitory modification of the Vocational Training for General Medical Practice (European Requirements) Regulations 1994
Transitory modification of the National Health Service (Vocational Training for General Medical Practice (Scotland) Regulations 1998
Revocation of the Choice Regulations
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